GM stock speaker impedance?

Hey does anyone happen to know what the impedance is on the stock 6.5" door speakers in a 2012 Chevy Cruze? I'd like to run all four with 2 channels on my amp, but it's only rated down to 2 ohms. So, I'm hoping the factory speakers are 4+ ohms, but I don't know for sure and don't want to fry my amp. Just can't afford to buy speakers right now and figure amplified stock speakers is better than nothing.

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I could be wrong but from what I seen most factory speakers are 8-25 watt, you really don't want to amp them. If you have a premium sound package you might have higher wattage but not much. What is your amp rated at? If you fry your speakers you won't have any. Iv'e seen a lot of good speakers sale cheap in the classifieds.

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Originally Posted by Kingstroker

I could be wrong but from what I seen most factory speakers are 8-25 watt, you really don't want to amp them. If you have a premium sound package you might have higher wattage but not much. What is your amp rated at? If you fry your speakers you won't have any. Iv'e seen a lot of good speakers sale cheap in the classifieds.

You may be right but I've done it in other vehicles and had it sound very much improved over the stock stereo. I had an old Chevy pickup with cheap paper 4x10's that sounded amazing with a good amp and a high-pass filter. I'm willing to try it out before I spend a couple hundred bucks and a bunch of time taking the doors apart. There's no worry about damaging the speakers with a big amp unless you drive them to the point that you're hearing insane, unbearable distortion.

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Your analog ohmmeter needs to have a X1 scale and be "zeroed" by shorting the leads and adjusting the zeroing knob (assuming it's an old VOM style). DC resistance of a speaker coil reads about 20% lower than the actual impedance but it's close enough for a 2 ohm v.s. 4 ohm check. If you use a digital meter be sure to short the leads first to get the zero reading. Subtract that from your measurement.

Re: GM stock speaker impedance?

Originally Posted by Kingstroker

My apologies, I was wrong. Stock speakers are amazing, don't worry about blowing them with an amp, they are made to handle lots of watts.

You could hook them up to a ten billion watt amp if you wanted to. You're not going to blow your speakers unless you're either deaf, stupid, or enjoy listening to horribly distorted music. I'm not saying that it's going to sound better than good speakers would, I'm just saying that it's going to sound a *lot* better than it does right now because a big amp that's barely breaking a sweat just sounds better than a crappy little in dash amp that's being driven near it's maximum capability.